Government Shutdown

GOP Warns “Definitely A Chance We’re Going To Go Past The Deadline” – ZeroHedge

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/12/2013 The rhetoric from today’s political maneuvering is eerily reminiscent of the rhetoric just a week ago and absolutely in now way represents the ‘progress’ than an impatient to BTFATH equity market appears confident about. As AP reports, Harry Reid seemed to arrogantly explain “we haven’t done anything yet” by way of compromise (as his…

Guys like Cruz doing what they were elected to do

David Roberts – The Independent Sat Oct 12, 2013 Interesting press release from Congress.org, excerpted here in part. Arizona Sen. John McCain — when asked about Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee and other Tea Party-affiliated senators — had some harsh words about his supposed GOP compatriots’ reluctance to send Senate conferees to a multi-house conference to…

Jim Rickards: Oct. 17 Is A Phony Deadline For Default

Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — James Rickards, senior managing director at Tangent Capital Partners, discusses the October 17 deadline for the United States breaching the debt ceiling, the options President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew could try if the government hits that deadline and what a possible 6-week extension could mean for negotiations. He…

Gov’t Charades Result In Elderly Being Kicked Out Of Their Homes

Published on Oct 9, 2013

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Reid Wants To Hike Debt Limit By $1T

thehill.com OCTOBER 09, 2013 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is moving legislation to push the debt limit until Dec. 31, 2014, well beyond next year’s midterm election. Senate aides estimate the bill would increase federal borrowing authority by about $1.1 trillion. The administration estimates the nation would hit the upper bounds of its $16.7…

Out with the Debt Ceiling, in with the Debt Target!

Published on Oct 9, 2013

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Paul Craig Roberts: Worse than the Great Depression-Gold and Silver Prices Will Explode

Published on Oct 8, 2013

Economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts contends, “The situation is unsustainable.” It will blow up at some point, and Dr. Roberts predicts, “It will be worse than the Great Depression because in the Great Depression, prices fell along with employment. Now, prices will be rising and employment would be falling. . . . Gold and silver prices will explode in dollar terms.” Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with former Assistant Treasury Secretary Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

China Says “This Is US’ Responsibility,” Imports Another 131 Tonnes Of Gold

Gold Silver Worlds | October 8, 2013 Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao commented publicly by expressing his concerns about the United States debt ceiling saga (via Reuters): “The United States is totally clear about China’s concerns about the fiscal cliff.” “We ask that the United States earnestly takes steps to resolve in a timely way before Oct. 17 the political…

Economic Confidence Collapses At Fastest Pace Since Lehman – ZeroHedge

Published on Zero Hedge (http://www.zerohedge.com) By Tyler Durden  Last week we showed the cognitive dissonance [7], nurtured by a liquidity-providing Fed, that has growth this year between stocks and economic confidence. In the last week, fed by a diet of DC headlines, Gallup’s economic confidence index [8] has collapsed. In fact, this is the worst 3-week plunge since Lehman – worse than during the…

12 Very Ominous Warnings About What A U.S. Debt Default Would Mean For The Global Economy

A U.S. debt default that lasts for more than a couple of days could potentially cause a financial crash unlike anything that the world has ever seen before.  If the U.S. government purposely wanted to damage the global financial system, the best way that they could do that would be to default on U.S. debt…